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Sec. Clinton i expected to go to work for the Childrens Defense Fund for marian adelman. I had interned for her, i think after my first year, maybe, and again, i think thats right, i wanted to go to work with her so i moved to cambridge and began working, doing investigations and litigation around issues like the incarceration of juveniles with adults in adult prisons or the effort to give tax exempt status to private segregated academies so they didnt have to pay taxes issues like that. Expandi...

I called the guy back 15 seconds later, realizing i made a mistake and said can i still interview for it . He said yes. I didnt interview with sam garrison, who was running the republican side of the staff that was not yet fully unified. Some thought it never was. Sam and had ath good interview with him. I was engaged to come in quite shortly thereafter. I reported for duty in december of 1973. Tell us about sam garrison. Give us a picture of him. Man, was a devoted family from the south. From r...

And i called back in 15 seconds and said i made a dreadful mistake and said can i still interview for it . He said yeah. And sam garrison running the republican side of the staff, not yet fully unified. Some thought it never was. I went down, met with sam, had a good interview with him. Engaged to come in quite shortly thereafter, and reported for duty in december 1973. Tell us a little bit about first of all, about sam garrison. Give us the work nature of him . He was a devoted family man. I th...

Nomination. Timothy hi, im timothy naftali, director of the richard museum, yorba linda, california. I have the honor and privilege weld interviewing william in new york city for the Richard Nixon oral history program. Mr. Weld, thank you for joining us today. Please tell us how you came to be involved with the inquiry . A call in the fall of 1973. I was an associate at a law firm asking me if id be interested in interviewing for a job on the impeachment staff. Point it really hadnt gotten off t...

Mr. Railsback . Chairman, thank you, and members of the committee by saying that you, mr. Chairman, i think in a rather difficult assignment with you because you know on many occasions i think you have handled yourself very well. And i think i can say for the most members of the committee that during these six months through the 38 volumes of evidence, the listening to the live witnesses morning, afternoon and night that i can be proud of my judiciary colleagues, most of them. I feel badly as Ch...

Attorney general in the united states. He says mr. Nixon says i pledge you that our general attorney will launch a war against organized crime in this nation. Respect from law can come only from people who take it into their hearts and minds and not into their hands. I believe in a system necessity which the appropriate cabinet officer gets credit for what goes right. I believe any 70 of government providing besful change. Mr. Mix nixon said the only way attack crime in america is the way crime ...

Activity. To become congressman and woman we took the same oath to uphold the constitution that Richard Nixon took. If we have to be careful, we must sign this. Secretary William Cohen you were a member of congress in the 1973. Explain what happened . Republicans demanded of our chief counsel and minority counsel at that point was bert jenner, a terrific trial lawyer from chicago. I believe it was congressman wig inns who really took the case. They said quote iryoure allegi abuse of power and ob...

Impeachment must go forward. Should richard m. Nixon be found guilty of obstruction of justice. Yes. Should nixon be found guilty of abusing the powers of his office yes and guilty of contempt and defiance of the courts. Yes. We hear a great deal today about the presumably grim consequences of impeachment. An endless public trial. People divided. The government paralyzed. The nation disgraced. Suppose the house should decide not to impeach. It should have consequences too. Refusal to impeach wou...

say things like -- this is crazy. theres no basis to do this. all you will do is create an institution which will haunt you as long as youre president and beyond. dont do this. dont do this. the others were saying thats ridiculous, the republicans, even democrats are coming out want it. it will end the media, the media storm thats going on now with respect to whitewater and things like that. i said no. we had a big debate on the telephone. its all mentioned in a recent book. i said -- ...

36 years old. i was 37 during the impeachment. i was an old man, compared to the others. and since i had a car and this is washington in the 70s in sort of a dangerous place, it was my job to drop the staff members off at night. so i would haul people in my car at 11:00, 12:00 at night and i would just drop them off and go to my little apartment that i had. one night im dropping all these people out. and one person to call that night was hillary rodham, she was a hard worker and really...